We argue that sharing personal stories of life is a fundamental human attribute to foster social cohesion, and that nowadays sharing personal stories about pain is difficult during biomedically-focussed time-constrained clinical consultations. Many treatments for pain were precursors of those used in modern time and society considered pain to be a “shared experience”. In the Medieval Period, pain was understood in terms of Galen's four humours and the Church's doctrine of pain as a “divine gift”, “punishment for sin” and/or “sacrificial offering”. 1,000–1,500 AD) to gain insights into the nature, attitudes, lived experience, and sense-making of pain. In this article, we appraise critiques of the writings of people living with pain during the mid (high) to late Medieval Period (c. Our perspective is that historical analyses of the Medieval Period provide insights to inform a fuller understanding of pain in the present era. Historical records provide knowledge about the way people lived in the past. 3Academic Unit of Palliative Care, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.2Centre for Pain Research, School of Health, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, United Kingdom.1Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.
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